I arrived in Cebu City on Tuesday morning. Although it had been about 8 years since I visited Cebu by my recollection, the airport in Mactan basically had not changed in that time. It surprised me, because Davao has a new airport in that time, and frankly, the Davao airport is much nicer than the […]
A week of adventures
This week is going to be a traveling week for me. Most of the week anyway. I’m not going anywhere that I’ve never been before, but I am going where I am going armed a little differently than I have in the past. I’ll be venturing to Cebu this week. First, I’ll be spending some […]
Easter Sunday with old friends and new
Spending a day with old friends and making new friends at the same time always makes for a great day. Mixing that together with a special holiday, and also some wonderful food and spirit only makes it that much better! A week or more ago, our old friend, Father Franco Uras, an Italian Priest who […]
Did I get you?
In my previous article, “That’s it. I’ve had enough.” I wrote about how I’ve decided to move back to the States. As many of you, no doubt guessed, the article was an April Fools Joke! Yes, it’s true, that was just a joke, and I have no intention of leaving the Philippines. I will, unless […]
Language Update
It has been a while now since I wrote about my language studies, but that doesn’t mean that I have not been staying busy with it! Now that my teacher, Bebe is also teaching here on the LiP site, I hope that some of you are also doing a little language study of your own! […]
Yes! Yes? Well, maybe…
I have heard a number of times from expats that Filipinos are liars. It is not something that I agree with, though. Sure, there are Filipinos who lie. There are Americans and Brits who lie too, but certainly all Filipinos are not liars, just as all Americans and Brits are not liars. Last year, right […]